strxfrm, wcsxfrm, _strxfrm_l, _wcsxfrm_l
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Transform a string based on locale-specific information.
Syntax
size_t strxfrm(
char *strDest,
const char *strSource,
size_t count
);
size_t wcsxfrm(
wchar_t *strDest,
const wchar_t *strSource,
size_t count
);
size_t _strxfrm_l(
char *strDest,
const char *strSource,
size_t count,
_locale_t locale
);
size_t wcsxfrm_l(
wchar_t *strDest,
const wchar_t *strSource,
size_t count,
_locale_t locale
);
Parameters
strDest
Destination string.
strSource
Source string.
count
Maximum number of characters to place in strDest
.
locale
The locale to use.
Return Value
Returns the length of the transformed string, not counting the terminating null character. If the return value is greater than or equal to count
, the content of strDest
is unpredictable. On an error, each function sets errno
and returns INT_MAX
. For an invalid character, errno
is set to EILSEQ
.
Remarks
The strxfrm
function transforms the string pointed to by strSource
into a new collated form that is stored in strDest
. No more than count
characters, including the null character, are transformed and placed into the resulting string. The transformation is made using the locale's LC_COLLATE
category setting. For more information on LC_COLLATE
, see setlocale. strxfrm
uses the current locale for its locale-dependent behavior; _strxfrm_l
is identical except that it uses the locale passed in instead of the current locale. For more information, see Locale.
After the transformation, a call to strcmp
with the two transformed strings yields results identical to those of a call to strcoll
applied to the original two strings. As with strcoll
and stricoll
, strxfrm
automatically handles multibyte-character strings as appropriate.
wcsxfrm
is a wide-character version of strxfrm
; the string arguments of wcsxfrm
are wide-character pointers. For wcsxfrm
, after the string transformation, a call to wcscmp
with the two transformed strings yields results identical to those of a call to wcscoll
applied to the original two strings. wcsxfrm
and strxfrm
behave identically otherwise. wcsxfrm
uses the current locale for its locale-dependent behavior; _wcsxfrm_l
uses the locale passed in instead of the current locale.
These functions validate their parameters. If strSource
is a null pointer, or strDest
is a NULL pointer (unless count is zero), or if count
is greater than INT_MAX
, the invalid parameter handler is invoked, as described in Parameter Validation . If execution is allowed to continue, these functions set errno
to EINVAL
and return INT_MAX
.
Generic-Text Routine Mappings
TCHAR.H routine | _UNICODE & _MBCS not defined | _MBCS defined | _UNICODE defined |
---|---|---|---|
_tcsxfrm |
strxfrm |
strxfrm |
wcsxfrm |
_tcsxfrm_l |
_strxfrm_l |
_strxfrm_l |
_wcsxfrm_l |
In the "C" locale, the order of the characters in the character set (ASCII character set) is the same as the lexicographic order of the characters. However, in other locales, the order of characters in the character set may differ from the lexicographic character order. For example, in certain European locales, the character 'a' (value 0x61) precedes the character 'ä' (value 0xE4) in the character set, but the character 'ä' precedes the character 'a' lexicographically.
In locales for which the character set and the lexicographic character order differ, use strxfrm
on the original strings and then strcmp
on the resulting strings to produce a lexicographic string comparison according to the current locale's LC_COLLATE
category setting. Thus, to compare two strings lexicographically in the above locale, use strxfrm
on the original strings, then strcmp
on the resulting strings. Alternately, you can use strcoll
rather than strcmp
on the original strings.
strxfrm
is basically a wrapper around LCMapString with LCMAP_SORTKEY
.
The value of the following expression is the size of the array needed to hold the strxfrm
transformation of the source string:
1 + strxfrm( NULL, string, 0 )
In the "C" locale only, strxfrm
is equivalent to the following:
strncpy( _string1, _string2, _count );
return( strlen( _string1 ) );
Requirements
Routine | Required header |
---|---|
strxfrm |
<string.h> |
wcsxfrm |
<string.h> or <wchar.h> |
_strxfrm_l |
<string.h> |
_wcsxfrm_l |
<string.h> or <wchar.h> |
For additional compatibility information, see Compatibility in the Introduction.
.NET Framework Equivalent
Not applicable. To call the standard C function, use PInvoke
. For more information, see Platform Invoke Examples.
See Also
Data Conversion
localeconv
setlocale, _wsetlocale
Locale
String Manipulation
strcoll Functions
strcmp, wcscmp, _mbscmp
strncmp, wcsncmp, _mbsncmp, _mbsncmp_l